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Discover LudwigThe word "heavy-footed" is correct and usable in written English
It is an informal way of saying someone is clumsy or moves too slowly. Example sentence: The heavy-footed waiter stumbled around the restaurant, dropping plates and tripping over chairs.
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heavy-footed
adjective
Slow-moving.
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Andrew Motion, the former Poet Laureate, goes further, calling it "heavy-footed".
By the time I've heavy-footed through the undergrowth, only a mound of the animal's dinner from last night remains.
The heavy-footed Scherzo had lacerating power.
But the recovery is heavy-footed and faint-hearted.
Some of his movies have been didactic and heavy-footed, but not "The Ninth Day".
He plays hard, and the set's loud, heavy-footed feeling built upward from him.
One long episode was like a Germanic, heavy-footed evocation of Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring".
On Friday that motif turned heavy-footed when it was given over to trombones.
Ambulances carry mangled, bloodied bodies from accidents on roads packed with trucks and heavy-footed drivers.
Later there was heavy-footed dancing to the accompaniment of Joseph Muscant's salon orchestra.
Even the polonaise-like finale should have a heavy-footed quality.
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